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apical portion thread-like, the whole light brown ; palpi 

 rather narrowly tufted, dull brown, apical joint slender but 

 distinct ; head and thorax dull pale purplish-brown, densely 

 covered with loose fluffy scales, among which the top and 

 back crests, though present and tipped with darker colour, 

 are rendered rather obscure ; fascicles yellowish-white ; abdo- 

 men very pale brown, with abundant long yellowish -white 

 hair-scales on its basal portion, the remainder more mouse- 

 coloured ; lateral tufts small, anal tuft narrow and rather 

 elongated. Fore wings of moderate breadth, becoming broad 

 behind ; costa nearly straight ; apex suddenly rounded ; hind 

 margin gently curved, but not very oblique ; dorsal margin 

 nearly straight ; colour dull heavy purplish -brown or greyish- 

 brown, yet with a superficial greasy gloss ; markings usually 

 extremely faint, often quite obscured ; when visible the basal 

 line is faintly black, twice angulated but abbreviated ; first 

 line double, of a deeper shade of purple-brown, broken into 

 three crescents, and the space enclosed by the double line 

 grey ; second line faintly darker purple-brown, much curved, 

 bent back, and abundantly angulated, obscurely edged out- 

 wardly with pale grey ; the central space between these two 

 lines sometimes darkened ; subterminal line faintly pale 

 grey, edged inwardly with a darker brown than the ground 

 colour, and much indented ; orbicular and reniform stigmata 

 very obscure, often hardly perceptible ; when visible, tinged 

 with pale grey, and palest at the margins ; claviform stigma 

 a mere faint cloud}^ brown spot; costa obscurely dappled 

 with grey ; hind margin edged with a faint yellowish line ; 

 cilia dull parple-brown. Hind wings rather broad, rounded, 

 pure white, or with the nervures faintly dusted with brown ; 

 hind margin edged with an undulating brown line ; cilia pure 

 white. Antennae of the female thread-like ; fore wings, if 

 possible, still more uniform in colouring — deep umbreous, 

 sometimes dusted with paler brown ; hind wings smoky- 

 brown, paler at the base, darkest along the hind margin. 

 Underside of the fore wings of the male glossy pale 



